Withholding Tax Migration Health Check 

Use

You must execute this report before you proceed with the Migration Program. It makes sure that all the Customizing settings have been made properly (for a list of the checks, see under Activities below), so that the Migration Program will migrate the data correctly. Additionally, the report also displays a list of the documents that you will not be able to process any more after the migration.

You must run the report for each company code that you want to carry out the migration for, and the health check status for each company code must be OK.

Prerequisites

You have carried out all the activities described under Preparations in Migration from Classic TDS to Extended Withholding Tax.

Features

To access the report, in Customizing for Financial Accounting (FI), choose Financial Accounting Global Settings  ® Withholding Tax  ® Withholding Tax Changeover  ® Withholding Tax Changeover India  ® Health Check.

Selection

On the selection screen, enter the following data:

·        Selection Criteria

¡        Specify which country and which company code you want to perform the health check for. You can only execute the report for one company code at a time.

¡        Specify whether you want to run all checks, or just the obligatory ones. We recommend that you perform all of the checks.

·        Document Details

In this group box, you specify which sorts of documents you want the report to cover, and from which dates.

·        Other Checks

Specify whether you want the vendor master records to be checked, and the tax code mapping from Classic TDS to Extended Withholding Tax.

Output

The output list shows:

·        The results of the Customizing checks

·        The documents that cannot be processed after the migration

·        The results of the vendor master checks

·        The results of the checks on the tax code mapping

The key is as follows:

Indicator	Meaning
	One check has been run on an obligatory Customizing activity, and the settings are incorrect
	One check has been run on an optional Customizing activity, and the settings are incorrect
	One check has been run on an obligatory Customizing activity, and the settings are correct
	Multiple checks have been run on an obligatory Customizing activity, and some of the settings are incorrect
	Multiple checks have been run on an obligatory Customizing activity, and all of the settings are correct

Process all of the activities marked , , or , and execute the report again. Only when all activities are marked  or  will the report assign the company code the status OK.

Activities

The report makes the following checks at country level:

·        Withholding tax country

·        Official withholding tax key

·        Withholding tax types

·        Withholding tax codes

·        Recipient types

·        Tax due dates

·        Rounding rules

·        Business transaction events

And these at company code level:

·        Company code global parameters

·        Extended Withholding Tax has been activated

·        Withholding tax codes are assigned to company code

·        Accounts for withholding tax to be paid over have been defined

·        Accounts for posting withholding tax and losses to be paid

·        Clearing accounts liable to withholding tax

·        Section codes have been defined

·        Factory calendar has been assigned to section codes

·        Creation of remittance challan

·        Vendor withholding tax certificates

·        Vendor master data

·        Surcharge calculation